Oralmotor and self-feeding progression Flashcards
Oral motor skills, Birth - 2 months
- latches to breast or bottle
- involuntary suck-swallow-breathe pattern
Oral motor skills, 2- 4 months
- latches to breast or bottle
- involuntary suck-swallow-breathe pattern
Self-feeding skills, 2-4 months
- put hands on breast/bottle during feeding
Oral motor skills, 4-6 months
- automatic suck becomes more voluntary
- spoon feeding
- pureed baby foods and cereal
Self-feeding skills, 4-6 months
- may hold bottle with 2 hands
- opens mouth in anticipation for eating
- cup drinking may begin w/ max A
oral motor skills, 7-9 months
- lip closure around spoon
- can begin to drink from open cup
- soft solid food (voluntary)
- up/down chewing motion (munching)
Self-feeding skills, 7-9 months
- hold own bottle
- hold own finger food
- raking/scooping motion across tray to get food
- use of inferior pincer grasp (think and side of index finger
oral motor skills, 10-12 months
- begins taking controlled bites of SOFT FOOD
- Begins to move food from side to side (ROTARY MOTION)
Self-feeding skills, 10-12 months
- IND finger feeding
- Begins to use thumb and tip of index finger (neat pincer)
- bangs spoon, mouths spoon, and plays with spoon
Oral motor skills, 13-15 months
- starting to close lips while chewing
- learning to make controlled bites of HARD FOOD (COOKIE)
Self-feeding skills, 13-15 months
- DIPS spoon
- brings spoon to mouth and obtains some food, but spills most d/t wrist inversion
Oral-motor skills, 16-18 months
- improved control of liquid within mouth
Self-feeding skills, 16-18 months
- holds and drinks from cup IND’ly
Oral motor skills, 18-24 months
- chews food completely w/ ROTARY MOVEMENTS
- chews wide variety of textures
Self-feeding skills, 18-24 months
- uses spoon to SCOOP and IND’ly self-feed
oral motor skills, 2-3 years
- uses tongue to clean lips
- drink from straw with LIPS (no biting)
Self-feeding skills, 2-3 years
- 30 months: can drink from open cup using one hand
- 36 months: FORK to PIERCE soft foods and bring to mouth
Oral motor skills, 3-4 years
- swallows food in mouth before taking another bite
self-feeding skills, 3-4 years
- serves self at table (can pour and scoop without spilling)
- holds cup w/ one hand while holding straw with the other
Self-feeding skills, 4-5 years
- spread soft substances w/ plastic or child-safe knife
self-feeding skills, 5-6 years
- cut foods w/ supervision
self-feeding skills, 5.5-6.5 years
- cut w/ fork and knife
- can IND’ly do entire process of holding utensils, cutting food, piercing it with fork and successfully bringing it to mouth
Utensil use progression
10-12 months: banging/playing/mouthing spoon
13-15 months: dipping spoon (can bring to mouth, but spills most food)
18-24 months: scoops food and IND’ly self-feeds
36 months: pierces food w/ fork (soft food) and brings to mouth
3-4 years: can serve self at table w/out spilling (spoon and fork use)
4-5 years: can use child-safe knife to spread soft substances
5-6 years: can use child safe knife to cut food w/ supervision
5.5-6.5 years: can use fork and knife together to cut food, pierce food, and bring to mouth (entire process of self-feeding)
Chewing progression
7-9 months: up/down chewing (munching)
10-12 months: begins moving food from side to side (start of rotary chewing)
18-24 movements: chews food completely with rotary movements
Cup-drinking progression
4-6 months: may begin sippie drinking
7-9 months: may begin drinking from an open cup w/ max A and a lot of spillage
16-18 months: holds cup w/ 2 hands and drinks from cup IND’ly
30 months: drinks from open cups with one hand
3-4 years: holds cup with one hand while holding straw with other to drink
